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By CHRISTY CAMPBELL

... and fellow ministers, of betraying veterans of the First World War by failing to attend the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme commemorations in France today. Both Mr Major and Mr Portillo are said by their offices to be too busy to attend. ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1996
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE LATEST ON THE RAILWAYS GHOST l TORPEDO TRAIN TRAIN

... designer of the first tanks, and Capt. W. J, Wakley, who took the British tanks to France and lost a leg in the first tank battle on the Somme, The Preston locomotives are stated to be the mechanical engineers’ answer to the Diesel electric enthusgiast, Germany--The ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1932
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

All's changed, a terrible duty is borne out of 1916

... republicanism and, against all the historic logic to include unionists, the Government has conjoined a commemoration of the Battle of the Somme in (July) 1916 to the occasion. Alas, too much suffering over a generation has probably made a stone of too many unionist ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 2006
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

5.50 Alfie Atkins. 2783579 6.00 Sesame Street. 74208 7.00 The Big Breakfast. 92869 9.00 Bewitched. 52802 9.30 ..

... conflicts ranging from World War One to Kosovo, examining the deployment of dud shells on German trenches during the Battle of the Somme. 4647 GREAT UNDERTAKINGS. The funeral of Bristol boxer Terry Ratcliffe. noted for his triumph at the 1950 Empire Games ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

Offering troops for Katrina, relief effort is 'ludicrous'

... about the most sophisticated, best-equipped army on the planet and we are the Boy Scouts, if you like, going into the Battle of the Somme. So let's be realistic. Of course we have to identify with the situation, but the way we are going about it is ludicrous ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 2005
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ROSARY IN IRISH

... style. Her characters are always above I upon many an Irish name—from the second battle common herd. and their dialogue is smart and of Ypres to the battle of the Somme. M'Allister's Grove. By Marion Hill. (London John Long. 65.) ...

Published: Monday 12 March 1917
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BBC RADIO 4 5.30 News 5.43 Bells or

... On; (T) RTE News 92361846 11:15 Mass on Sunday m 68459049 12:05 999 Emergency 59535329 12:20 In the Line of Fire: The Battle of the Somme 15721049 1:20 .RTE News (T) 75680488 1:30 Not Enough Hours (T) 79623204 2:00 What Am I Worth? (T) 45935846 2:30 Showhouse ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 137 | Tags: none

Orange Order urged to take part in talks over Drumcree

... chairman. No meetings have taken place, but we are awaiting developments. The return parade by Orangemen from the annual Battle of the Somme church service every July at Drumcree, was the most controversial march in Northern Ireland for much of the 1990 s and ...

Published: Tuesday 19 December 2006
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

CHILDREN'S BBC

... Daytime On Two. 93203(10 12.30 Working Lunch. 29774 1.00 Children's BBC: Brum. 68060720 WAR WALKS. The events of the Battle of the Somme. 4 / 9 7/3/6 HART-DAVIS ON HISTORY. A Welsh geology hunt. 35724671 AWASH WITH COLOUR. Ulster American Folk Park. 56584720 ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1999
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

Orangemen face the police barricade during the annual Orange Order parade yesterday at Drumcree, Co Armagh ..

... parades, particularly in parts of North Belfast. Following a Service yesterday at Drumcree in memory of the fallen at the Battle of the Somme, a few hundred Orange men and women marched with two bands to a temporary barrier erected by the security forces. The ...

Published: Monday 11 July 2005
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

12 Irish Independent, Thursday, June 5, 1997 Irish Independent IRELAND'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER An Orange letter ..

... direction. The letter explained that the march, on the first Sunday in July, was to remember those who died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The reaction by the Garvaghy Road residents' association chairman, Councillor Brendan McKenna, was disingenuous ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1997
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

50 years ago

... Prime Minister, M. Reynaud, broadcast the news that so far the Allies were winning the Battle of the Somme. Hundreds of German tanks had already been destroyed. The battles of June 1940, he said, would decide the fate of the world for 100 years to come but ...

Published: Thursday 07 June 1990
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: 23 | Tags: none